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Watch Berto vs Soto Karasslive streamIn boxing, there is dumb, dumber and then there is the ill-fated strategy Andre Berto employed in last November's fight against Robert Guerrero. You remember that Berto, right? The power puncher who spent most of his career clobbering opponents with right hands who inexplicably came out against Guerrero employing a (bad) shoulder roll defense that got him knocked down twice in the first two rounds and probably cost him the fight?Yep, that's the one. Now, a fighter tinkering with his style isn't unusual. A fighter overhauling it and implementing a style very few fighters employ is highly unusual, especially since only one fighter (Floyd Mayweather Jr.) has mastered the technique Berto tried.In a way though, it was fitting. The loss to Guerrero was a disastrous end to a disastrous stretch for the former welterweight champ. Earlier in 2012, Berto was busted for using a banned substance, offering a meek explanation (contamination that could have been attributed to eating tainted food) that few really believed. Before that, Berto was beaten up in a decision